Print edition 25.05.12

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This week, Iain Duncan Smith defends his welfare reforms against critics both inside and outside his party; Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor hails Norman St John-Stevas as a man of dazzling wit and devotion; Rachel Johnson attends a joyful wedding with no chocolate fountain in sight; and Bishop Macram Max Gassis tells Ed West that his diocese is ridden by war and slavery. Paul Johnson, meanwhile, says secularism doomed the EU to failure. You can read it all online by subscribing here. Or, for a hard copy, go here.